Obedience

Chapter Eight Delay Obedience – Is Disobedience “If you will only let me help you if you will only obey, then I will make you rich.” Isaiah 1:19 (LB) Months had passed, and now it was November. The Lord told me to pack again. He said to me to put some money aside every week so that when…

Over the years, many controversial psychology experiments were lead by brilliant psychologists to study human behaviour in different situations. Many of them are known, like the “Obedience to Authority Experiment”, lead by psychologist Stanley Milgram. One of the most notorious experiments in the history of psychology is the “ Stanford Prison Experiment ” put together by psychologist Philip Zimbardo, whose intention was to study the psychological effect of human behaviour when good people are…

Manipulation and Control Experiments are used to get a better understanding of things. They help expand our knowledge on anything from diseases, mental illnesses, and why we as human beings act the way we do. In Stanley Milgram’s experiment “The Perils of Obedience” and Phillip Zimbardo’s “The Stanford Prison Experiment” we learned just how far some would go with the power they are given. Zimbardo’s and Milgram’s experiments showed how having the slightest bit of power can corrupt one’s morals.…

Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority is one of the best known studies in social psychology. It was repeated several times in different variations. These replications extended our knowledge about the phenomenon of complying to authorities’ orders. One of them was the experiment conducted by Hofling et al. This essay will outline the similarities and differences between these two studies. Firstly, in their aims, results and conclusions. Secondly, their methodological and ethical aspects.…

triggers of unquestioning obedience. He inquired why so many people from uneventful backgrounds followed orders from the most tyrannical and prejudice leader ever facing this world. Basing his theory from that of a grade school friend and famous situationist—Philip Zimbardo—Milgram began to explore the possibility of a situation to force a person to act in opposition of their deepest values and morals. His curiosity resulted in the perpetually debated Milgram Obedience Experiments. In this…

In this article “The Peril of Obedience” Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments to determine if people would choose to follow authority or obey their morals. In this series of experiments the experimenter Stanley Milgram found a few contributors to test out his theory. Before he started his experiment he had to pick a teacher and a student, who each got a piece of paper to decide which one is going to give the shocks and which one was going to take the shocks. The learner was strapped…

This topic is analyzed as it greatly fit within the movie concept. It will explain how it correlates with move The Stanford Prison experiment, another similar examples and comparison with Milgram Experiment. To start analyzing obedience to authority it is good to give first example of relation between cooks and the chef. The location is in the kitchen where cooks are preparing food and chef gave them an order to put big amount of salt in the dishes. Cooks are aware that that amount of salt will…

Obedience is a form of social influence where a person acts in response to a direct order from another individual who is an authoritative figure. Sometime the order violates their morals and ethical codes. According to Dr. Stanley Milgram, people obey ether out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative even when acting against the own better judgement and desire. Dr. Milgram a psychologist at Yale University desires was to investigate scientifically how people could be capable of doing…

Variations of his experiment have been conducted over many years and in other settings with similar findings. The effect of authority on obedience is striking. People obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative, even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. The vast majority of people will obey authority even when it overrides their own moral judgement…

Jay Patel 07/24/2017 Argument/Analysis: Obedience to Authority Introduction Maverick Paragraph #7 Ever wonder why followers support a leader’s idea, even when they know the ideology of the leader is wrong? This is an example of a “group mind.” It can be defined as, supporters acting together mindlessly to create an outcome of one’s thinking. In other words, a group of people agrees with a ruler or the boss, others, who know the leader is wrong, also goes along with their thoughts and ideas.…